Tracing the powerful family roots of suspected killer Luigi Mangione

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Posted on 12/14/2024 12:52:39 PM PST by BenLurkin

Nicholas Mangione Sr was born there in 1925, starting life in a poor immigrant family. He spent the first eight years of his life in a one-room flat with an outdoor privy toilet, according to the Baltimore Sun.

During World War Two, he served in the Navy in the South Pacific before returning to his Maryland home where he built a series of enterprises as well as, according to local media, a combative - even aggressive – reputation when it came to his business interests.

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Within Baltimore's tight-knit Italian community, there's loyalty to Nick Mangione and his memory. Life-long Little Italy resident, 83-year-old Mary Ann Campanella, called him an "excellent man".

"If you went to him (for help)," she said, "and he looked at you – you got it. He helped everyone."

The family patriarch - who long ago had moved his expanding family out to the suburbs - died in 2008, leaving behind 10 children, and 37 grandchildren, including Luigi Mangione.

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